[SOLVED] Print last 6 months

[fohanlon]

Hi Guys,

 

I know you can get the current month using data("m");

 

How can I output the last 6 months (numeric value "m" and text representation "M") from the current month including the current month.

 

Have tried a few solutions but falling down when current month is for example 2 it should print out

 

2- Feb

1 - Jan

12 - Dec

11 - Nov

10 - Oct

9 - Sept

 

Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Many thanks,

 

Fergal.

[GingerRobot]

strtotime() is your friend:

 

<?php
for($i = 0;$i<6;$i++){
$time = strtotime("today - $i months");
echo date("m M",$time).'<br />';
}
?>

[fohanlon]

Ben

 

Thanks for this code.  Seems to be nearly there.

 

When I run it it prints:

 

11 Nov

12 Dec

01 Jan

02 Feb

03 Mar

04 Apr

 

 

However I need it to print:

 

11 Nov

10 Oct

9 Sept

8 Aug

7 July

6 Jun

 

What would I change to sort this out

 

Thanks,

 

Fergal.

 

[GingerRobot]

The code i posted works fine for me. Are you sure you copied it exactly? You didn't change a minus to a plus by accident?

[fohanlon]

Hi Ben

 

Solved it as follows:

 

for($i = 0; $i<6; $i++)

{

 $time = strtotime("-$i months");

 echo date("m M", $time).'<br />';

}

 

Many thanks for your help.  Hopefully this should work for all months.  strtotime works from current timestamp if none is supplied.

 

Regards

 

Fergal.

[GingerRobot]

Very strange. Out of interest, what version of PHP are you running?

 

I assume the issue lies somewhere with 'today'. It works fine for me locally under 5.1.6 and fine on a host which is running 5.2.4.

[fohanlon]

Yes agreed looks like today is the problem alright.

 

Have PHP 5.1.2 on my local machine and your code is perfect.

 

Version 4.something on hosting solution - issue must be here.

 

Thanks,

 

Fergal.